The rapid rise of the Nazi Party during the early 1930s to become the largest party in the Reichstag deserves careful consideration. The character and polices of the Party, its power structure, its methods and its leadership all require attentions.
Notes will be needed on the following aspects:

‘Was Hitler’s support strongest in Protestant provincial Germany?’

Having become Chancellor, General von Schleicher lasted just two months in office. He lacked a secure political base and had earned the enmity of von Papen. Although it did not prove easy to persuade Hindenburg to appoint Hitler, he eventually agreed to do so. Right wing nationalist parties celebrated believing that they had won the ability to control Hitler. Events rapidly showed them that they were wrong.
Notes will be required on the following aspects:

theme 4: the transformation of post-weimar society

The means used to assert power and the use made of power mean that all three key concepts are of relevance i.e.

Ideology

Authority

Revolution.

Issues to consider / investigate / discuss

The nature of Nazi rule and Hitler’s own intentions have been the subject of much debate among historians. As you build up notes consider the following issues:

Is Hitler’s role absolutely central to all that happened in these years?

What difference did Nazi rule make to the lines of ordinary Germans?

What opposition did the Nazis face inside Germany?

How do you explain the German economic recovery? Was it due to Nazi policies?

Is it possible, in any way, to see Nazi policies as a continuation of what had been happening before 1933?

The historian Ian Kershaw notes:

‘More than half a century after the destruction of the Third Reich, leading historians are far from agreement on some of the most fundamental problems of interpreting and explaining Nazism.’Ian Kershaw, ‘Nazi Dictatorship: Problems and Perspectives of Interpretation’, Arnold, 2000